Abstract

Mistletoe Technologies Inc. commissioned The Tolly Group to benchmark the performance of the Viking Interworks Viking V Firewall/VPN Gateway, which uses Mistletoe’s VF4500 Security System-on-a-Chip.

Tolly Group engineers conducted firewall and VPN throughput tests, measuring the zero-loss bidirectional performance of the Viking 2-Gigabit VPN/Firewall Appliance when subjected to a variety of packet sizes: 64, 128, 256, 512, 768, 1,024, 1,280, 1,518 bytes plus an Internet mix (IMIX) and Tolly IMIX. (IMIX and Tolly IMIX are traffic blends to measure device performance under several “typical” customer scenarios. This is a means to more accurately determine device performance in a real-world environment.)

For the firewall measurement, throughput was recorded with 100 and 10,000 access control lists (ACLs) active, an indicator that the Viking V 2-Gigabit VPN/Firewall Appliance can handle the overhead of ACL services while simultaneously processing packets. For the VPN performance test, throughput was measured over 254 VPN tunnels.